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Fall 2026 Office of Teaching and Learning Book Club
During Fall 2026, the Office of Teaching and Learning will host a book club on The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The book club will create a sustained space to think together about AI, academic integrity, assessment, learning, and the kinds of educational cultures we want to build. The book club is open to all University of Guelph, University of Guelph-Humber, and Ridgetown faculty, staff, instructors, teaching assistants, and graduate students.
Across monthly meetings, participants will discuss selected portions of the book, connect ideas to their teaching contexts, and exchange practical approaches for communicating with students, designing meaningful assessments, and responding to AI use with clarity and care. No prior AI expertise is required; curiosity, questions, and a willingness to think with colleagues are welcome.
Join us in person from 10 – 11 a.m. on Sept. 24, Oct. 22, Nov. 19 and Dec. 17.
About The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI
In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting to cheat, and teachers may think they can’t keep up. What’s needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach—one that works with the realities of the twenty-first century, not just to protect academic integrity but also to maximize opportunities for students to learn.
The Opposite of Cheating presents a positive, forward-looking, research-backed vision for what classroom integrity can look like in the GenAI era, both in cyberspace and on campus. Accordingly, the book outlines workable measures teachers can use to better understand why students cheat and to prevent cheating while aiming to enhance learning and integrity.
Bertram Gallant and Rettinger provide practical suggestions to help faculty revise the conversation around integrity, refocus classes and students on learning, reconsider the structure and goals of assessment, and generally reframe our response to cheating. At the core of this strategy is a call for teachers, academic staff, institutional leaders, and administrators to rethink how we “show up” for students, and to reinforce and fully support quality teaching, learning, and assessment. With its evidentiary basis and its useful tips for instructors across disciplines, levels of experience, and modes of instruction, this book offers a much-needed chance to pause, rethink our purpose, and refocus on what matters—creating classes that center human interactions that foster the personal and professional growth of our students.
(From the publisher’s description ©2025)
Book Club Schedule
Book Club members will meet from 10-11am on three Thursdays:
- September 24
- October 22
- December 17
Accessing the Book
Please note that The Opposite of Cheating is now available as an e-book via the McLaughlin Library!